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Mamestra by the sinuate internal margin of the primaries and the 

 more produced apices. The moth is extraordinary for the resem- 

 blance which its primaries present to those of Dupo ^■itis or D. 

 Linnei. The resemblance to Prodenia is therefore also strong. 



Enpsepliopaectes procinctnsj Orote, Plate 4, fig. 6. 



? . — The dark greenish-black ground-color of the primaries has a light 

 purple cast along costa and over the narrow defined external margin. The 

 bands and lines are pale brownish-ochrey. The median nervure and veins 3 

 and 4 are striped with -pale ochreous scales to subtermiual line. The trans- 

 verse anterior line is angulated, geminate and margins obliquely outwardly, 

 below median nervure, a triangulate basal patch of the ground color, the inner 

 pale margin of which is furnished by a purplish shade extending obliquely 

 upwardly from the base of the wing, while a pale streak above internal margin 

 provides the base of the triangle. The ordinary spots are opposedly oblique, 

 pale and double-ringed, and hence enclose a V-shaped dark space of the ground 

 color on the cell. A broad pale ochrey band runs downwardly obliquely from 

 the apices to vein 1, which it joins at the extremity of the transverse anterior 

 line. The pale single transverse posterior line accompanies this band from vein 

 5 downwards, it is dentate on 5 and, above it, runs inwardly upwardly to costa, 

 which it joins above the reniform. The subterminal line appears below the 

 oblique apical band as a series of pale interspaceal streaks followed by dark 

 dots of the ground color of the wing before the purplish contrasting terminal 

 space, which latter shows double terminal hair-lines ; fringes pale. Internal 

 margin striped with ochrey brown. Secondaries fuscous, whitish towards base 

 and centrally ; veins dark ; fringes pale, white-tipped, with a middle dark line. 

 Beneath, with reddish powderings ; on secondaries a discal dot. Tegulae pale 

 ochrey, with dark marginal lines. Collar with several alternate pale and dark 

 hair-lines, neatly marked. 



Expanse, 45 m. ni. Habitat, California (coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, 

 No. 73). 



Mamestra cliartaria, G-rote, Plate 4, fig. 12, $ . 



i 9 . — Eyes hairy ; fore tibiae unarmed ; the species belongs to Lederer's 

 section E c, and resembles in color, size and appearance M. alhifusa and M. 

 chenopodii. Gray, shaded with olivaceous testaceous, all the markings distinct 

 and colors clear. Basal half-line geminate, black, distinctly marked (as are all 

 the other lines) on costa, with included white scales. T. a. line similar in ap- 

 pearance, the inner line, below the costa, less distinct. Claviform blunt and 

 rounded, dark-shaded. Orbicular rather large, pale and sometimes undefined. 



